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Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

49 pointsby Jonathanfishnertoday at 8:17 PM30 commentsview on HN

We recently started to use agents to update some documentation across our codebase on a weekly basis, and everything quickly turned into cron jobs, logs, and terminal output.

it worked, but was hard to tell what agents were doing, why something failed, or whether a workflow was actually progressing.

We thought it would be more interesting to treat agents as long-lived workers with state and responsibilities and explicit handoffs. Something you can actually see and reason about, instead of just tailing logs.

So we built Clawe, a small coordination layer on top of OpenClaw that lets agent workflows run, pause, retry, and hand control back to a human at specific points.

This started as an experiment in how agent systems might feel to operate, but we're starting to see real potential for it, especially for content review and maintenance workflows in marketing. Curious what abstractions make sense, what feels unnecessary, and what breaks first.

Repo: https://github.com/getclawe/clawe


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jryiotoday at 8:51 PM

There have been a few of these kanban[1] user interfaces over claude code or some other agent (open claw).

These are all proto orchestrators. No one has discovered/converged on what agent orchestration actually looks like.

Other projects include conductor.build, gas town (infamously), and others.

Another layer of abstraction in the infinite castle of computer science.

1: https://www.vibekanban.com/

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unixherotoday at 8:49 PM

But teams already have planner. No Microsoft zealot organizations are using Trello anymore

croisillontoday at 8:59 PM

the limits of a no-code website editor https://chartdb.io/ that's hilarious

please hold for the non-existent cdn while we download 372 fonts

nickvectoday at 9:01 PM

Haven't dug as much as I would like to into OpenClaw, but why is there so much hype around it? I don't understand the appeal of using it as a replacement for Claude Code.

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acedTrextoday at 9:00 PM

I love this trend of posting vibe coded in a day slop apps to every place on the internet.

Really makes me want to be here.

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Barbingtoday at 8:38 PM

Can we talk about the name?

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